Continued dominance and breakout seasons are still underway through six weeks of collegiate baseball, and these three Whitecaps couldn’t help but be a part of it, putting on a show from coast-to-coast.
Pete Daniel, Virginia Tech, INF
Virginia Tech junior infielder Pete Daniel made the jump from Belmont University and the Missouri Valley Conference to Power Four collegiate baseball and the ACC in 2026. Despite the heightened competition, his game has hardly slowed.
Daniel was especially impressive over the last week and a half, helping the Hokies go 3-2 and take two of three from Duke over the weekend by contributing a fourth of the 20 runs his team scored.
His best game of the weekend came on Saturday, where he recorded two knocks, including a double, drove in two runs and crossed the plate once himself. His best game of the stretch as a whole, however, came against in-state rival Virginia Commonwealth University during a Wednesday midweek prior to the weekend.
Daniel went 3-for-5 against the Rams, and drove in the final run of the Hokies' 11-8 victory in the bottom of the eighth inning with a single. He capped off the five-game stint by going 1-for-4 against East Tennessee State University on Tuesday.
All told, Daniel went 7-for-19, with two extra base hits, five walks, two hit-by-pitches and five RBIs. Stretches like that will be more than welcome on the Cape when Daniel makes his Brewster Whitecaps debut this summer.
Jacob Lee, VCU, C
VCU sophomore catcher Jacob Lee and his teammates found themselves on the wrong side of their in-state matchup against Daniel and Virginia Tech, but the backstop didn’t let that stop him from going off over the weekend.
Lee came out of the gates hot against Dayton last Friday, going 4-for-6, with two doubles, a two-run home run – his fourth of the year – and four RBIs in the Rams' 17-7 stomping of the Flyers.
He kept the momentum going – albeit not at as extreme a pace – recording three hits and two RBIs to round out the weekend before 2-for-4 with a double against Norfolk State on Tuesday to round out the week at 9-for-17, with four extra base hits, six RBIs and five runs scored himself.
Lee entered his sophomore campaign in the spotlight after posting a 1.010 OPS and 17 home runs a season prior, leading to being named to four separate Freshman All-America teams. So far, he’s done well to avoid a sophomore slump, slashing .315/.434/.517. He’ll be trying to not only keep the numbers up as the collegiate season continues, but also once he gets a wood bat in his hands on the Cape for the Whitecaps.
Rohan Lettow, San Diego State, RHP
Through six weeks, San Diego State junior right-handed starter Rohan Lettow has transformed from an unproven arm with upside into a bona fide ace.
The Chandler, Arizona, native made his first appearance as a Whitecaps Top Performer of the Week in week two for his 6.2 inning, 10 strikeout, no earned run performance against BYU. Since then, he’s continued to shove, with only one small bump in the road.
Lettow stepped onto the mound at Tony Gwynn Stadium on March 13 against Washington State with a 2.53 ERA on the season, but didn’t look like himself that day, allowing three runs in five innings.
It wasn’t a disastrous start, and the Aztecs even went on to win the game, but Lettow was in need of a bounce-back performance when he stepped on the bump against San Jose State last Friday, in hostile territory.
Luckily, he delivered.
Lettow twirled a career-high seven strong innings, while striking out six and only allowing two earned runs on six hits and a walk. Despite the former Arizona State Sun Devils' low run total, the Aztecs couldn’t pull through and fell to the Spartans, 3-2.
Title photo credit to Casey Bayne.
